The Moving Blade

When the top American diplomat in Tokyo, Bernard Mattson, is killed, he leaves more than a lifetime of successful Japan-American negotiations. He leaves a missing manuscript, boxes of research, a lost keynote speech and a tangled web of relations.

When his alluring daughter, Jamie, returns from America wanting answers, finding only threats, Detective Hiroshi Shimizu is dragged from the safe confines of his office into the street-level realities of Pacific Rim politics.

With help from ex-sumo wrestler Sakaguchi, Hiroshi searches for the killer from Tokyo's back alley bars to government offices, through anti-nuke protests to the gates of an American naval base. When two more bodies turn up, Hiroshi must choose between desire and duty, violence or procedure, before the killer silences his next victim.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Raked Gravel Press
Published: 08/30/2018
ISBN: 9781942410164
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2018 pg. 230
Foreword 09/20/2018
BlueInk Review 09/17/2018
Indie Reader 09/21/2018
Booklist 01/01/2019 pg. 48